Chapter 20 Review

Question 1

What was the Neutrality Act of 1939?

Answer 1

The U.S. being able to rent out supplies to Great Britain, to help defeat Hitler.

Question 2

What did Pearl Harbor end?

Answer 2

Political division in the U.S.

Question 3

What was one of the causes of Pearl Harbor?

Answer 3

The U.S. shutting down oil embargo to Japan.

Question 4

Who was the brains behind Pearl Harbor?

Answer 4

Hideki Tojo

Question 5

When did the Nazi Party rise to popularity?

Answer 5

In the 1930s

Question 6

What was the Nazi party’s platform?

Answer 6

Supporting the ayran race.

Question 7

Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

Answer 7

In hopes that it would crush the American forces, so that Japan could expand.

Question 8

Who was Mussolini?

Answer 8

Founder of the Fascist party and leader of Italy during WW2.

Question 9

What was missing when Pearl Harbor was attacked?

Answer 9

An aircraft carrier.

Question 10

Who was president when the atomic bomb was dropped?

Answer 10

Harry Truman

Question 11

What happened to Japanese citizens as a result of Pearl Harbor?

Answer 11

They were put into internment camps.

Question 12

Why were Japanese citizens targeted?

Answer 12

There were easy to spot and usually lived on the West coast.

Question 13

What did women do during WW2?

Answer 13

Stepped up to rivet planes and help keep the war machine moving.

Question 14

What is rationing?

Answer 14

Conserving food, gasoline, and other important supplies to limit civilian use and send more to the war effort.

Question 15

Who did Hitler blame for Germany’s loss in WW1?

Answer 15

The Jews

Question 16

What was Blizkrieg?

Answer 16

Lighting warfare, used all of German power to override countries.

Question 17

Who was Hitler?

Answer 17

German dictator, wrote “Mein Kampf”. It outlined his hatred for Jews and the support he had for Germany being an empire.

Question 18

What did Hitler tell the public he was doing to the Jews?

Answer 18

Sending them to concentration camps to make them good German citizens.

Question 19

What did Hitler want for Germany?

Answer 19

For it to become a powerful third Reich.

Question 20

When did the attack of Pearl Harbor happen?

Answer 20

December 7, 1941

Question 21

Who was Winston Churchill?

Answer 21

Prime minister of Great Britain, which at one point was the only country standing against Hitler.

Question 22

What was Totalitarianism?

Answer 22

Government controlling everything, ex. Stalin controlling society, culture, economy.

Question 23

Who were the two strongest countries after WW2?

Answer 23

The United States and Soviet Union.

Question 24

Why did Truman start the UN?

Answer 24

Out of fear for the Soviet Union’s power.

Question 25

What was the Yalta Conference?

Answer 25

Where FDR, Stalin, and Churchill met to discuss postwar plans.

Question 26

Who appeared to be winning WW2 by 1940?

Answer 26

Germany and Italy

Question 27

When did FDR come up with the Europe First Strategy?

Answer 27

After Pearl Harbor

Question 28

When did Hitler give up world domination?

Answer 28

After his defeat at Stalingrad

Question 29

What was Stalingrad?

Answer 29

When Hitler invaded Stalingrad after turning his back on Stalin and their agreement.

Question 30

Who won Stalingrad?

Answer 30

The Soviets

Question 31

What was D-Day?

Answer 31

Allied forces landing on Normandy beach in France, getting closer to Hitler.

Question 32

What was Auschwitz?

Answer 32

The biggest and most famous concentration camps.

Question 33

What is genocide?

Answer 33

Mass killing of a certain race or religion.

Question 34

What did Hitler ban Jews from?

Answer 34

Working in the government, owning a business, and banning marriage with someone who wasn't a Jew.

Question 35

What was Hitler's Final Solution?

Answer 35

Extermination of the Jews.

Question 36

Why couldn't countries open their borders to Jews who were trying to escape?

Answer 36

Because of the Great Depression, they had to focus on their own citizens.